Informalization in UK party election broadcasts 1966-97
Informalization in UK party election broadcasts 1966-97
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1966-97 年英国政党选举广播的信息化
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2005
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M. Pearce
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M. Pearce
本文使用一种新颖的定量方法来评估 1966 年至 1997 年 31 年间英国政党选举广播变得更加“非正式”的程度。使用朗文英语口语和书面语法，我识别出了 28 个在正式性评估中显着的语言“标记”，并计算了它们在 37,000 个单词的语料库中的出现频率。我的定量研究结果表明，随着时间的推移，信息化程度普遍提高，这与批判性话语分析（CDA）中做出的判断相对应。但我也在 1987 年的广播中发现了一个异常现象，我参考保守党领袖玛格丽特·撒切尔的影响对此进行了解释。
This article uses a novel, quantitatively based method to assess the extent to which UK party election broadcasts in the 31 years between 1966 and 1997 became more ‘informal’. Using the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I identify 28 linguistic ‘markers’ which are salient in the assessment of formality, and count their frequencies in the 37,000-word corpus. My quantitative findings reveal a general increase in informalization over time, which corresponds with judgements made in critical discourse analysis (CDA). But I also discover an anomaly in the broadcasts from 1987, which I explain with reference to the influence of the Conservative party leader, Margaret Thatcher.